{"nrhp_refnum":"09000481","name":"Stoops Hotel","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"2839 NY 29","address_restricted":false,"city":"Battenville","county":"Washington County","state":"NY","lat":43.11342298300008,"lon":-73.42302217399998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2009-06-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History","Commerce"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A timber-frame tavern and hotel building at 2839 New York Route 29 in the hamlet of Battenville, Washington County, New York, dating from the late 18th to early 19th century and identified on an 1866 map as Isaac Stoops Hotel.","why_significant":"The building is presented as a rare surviving example of 19th-century tavern and hotel architecture in Washington County. It is tied to the region's early overland transportation routes and to the social history of Battenville. It retains a tap room with early bar fixtures and a largely intact historic plan.","narrative":"Stoops Hotel is a timber-frame tavern and inn on Route 29 in Battenville, Washington County, New York. Local tradition places construction in two phases beginning around 1790-1800, though physical evidence does not clearly support this, and the earliest surviving finishes reflect a classically inspired late 18th-century vernacular. Exterior and interior work relates to c. 1815-1830 detailing in the area. The clapboarded building has three entrances, an asymmetrical east facade, moulded cornices with returns, and an attic hoist on the south gable. Inside, the tap room keeps a period bar with Tuscan columns, plaster walls, a beaded plank dado and strap-hinged doors, and a large second-floor room suggests a ballroom. The hotel served travelers on roads linking regional turnpikes, and it figured in the hamlet's social life, including tension with the temperance climate promoted at the nearby mill. Its rarity and intact plan underpin its local importance in architecture, commerce and social history.","period_of_significance":"c. 1815-c. 1900","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Early Republic: Federal","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":null,"vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:47.86505-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/09000481.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75322872","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoops_Hotel","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7619655"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/washington-county/stoops-hotel-09000481/"}